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regallibellbright · 1 year

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Both my brother and father are frequent GMs for the ttrpgers in our social circle. They also each play in the other’s game.

This leads to fun situations like a week or two ago when my brother brought up giant undersea scorpions being a thing that exists in casual conversation.

Dad: That’s coming up in a game.

Bro: (His girlfriend, who plays in Bro’s) already forbade them.

Mom: *laughing* I love that you both went straight there. You and she just knew he’d do that.

Me: Who do you think he learned from? And who plays in his games and therefore KNOWS exactly what he’d do?

Bro is, I believe, the one who suggested to Dad back when we were still kids the phrase “carnivorous crickets,” before realizing he was giving the GM ideas. Horrifying arthropods are in fact part of his GMing style.

So anyway, Dad’s the GM tonight, Bro’s visiting his girlfriend, so I just heard the alarm go off and Dad go “time to go kill some adventurers.”

I told him to have fun.

#family shenanigans #ttrpg #arthropods #insects #carnivorous insects #just feels like something I should tag for #with the virtual campaigns it's very amusing because you can hear one of them say something from one room #and then the other respond not-infrequently #at least if you're on the main level (as one is upstairs and the other downstairs) or if you are me and can hear through floors #... usually not distinctly but I can occasionally make things out if respective doors are still open #walls as a given though I have to wear headphones whenever someone's in therapy #as a total bystander in BOTH games (and any others one or both of them may be running) who relies on them for transport #it's not at all uncommon for me to hear their plans for one or the other's game and/or help pick choices for a dungeon design or the like #(because yes of course my game designer little brother has both a massive homebrew setting and often designs dungeons off his own ideas)#he also does magical items himself he has fun with that #winner has to be the Sack O' Daggers - an unassuming porch containing infinitely respawning magic daggers #(capable of having whatever property you as GM would like added to them by making the sack a sack o' +whatever daggers; magical by default)#you cannot sell them; only one is active at a time; but if you're going to be checked before entering somewhere hey!#You just have an unassuming empty pouch. Totally empty. SURPRISE! Daggers.#(and of course my dad who has been involved in this hobby since the 70s when he was a teenager is pretty experienced as a GM)#the real monster of mythic proportions in the household is actually frogs that nearly wrecked his party in like the 70s/80s #leading them all to ask 'what? do they have vorpal tongues or something?'#the vorpal frogs have come up at least once since with INTENTIONAL death in their eyes #but yeah of course I gleefully enable them both in trying to kill each other's characters this is bonding time for them #and all their friends. Hey there's a third GM in that group don't feel TOO sorry for everyone.

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whatnext10 · 10 months

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Milkweed Assassin Bugs are Great Hunters and Pest Controllers

Milkweed Assassin Bugs are Great Hunters and Pest Controllers features a milkweed assassin bug that was found hunting in a patch of tickseed flowers. It describes the bug’s range, diet, hunting styles, and the author/artist’s feelings about the bug.

Searching Inside I really love the abundance of tickseed flowers that we have all over the place right now. Not only are the flowers themselves really pretty, but the pollinators adore them. So if I want to see and photograph bees, wasps, butterflies, and heaven knows what else, all I have to do is find a patch of these flowers. The other day I stopped at a bunch of them and as well as…

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etakeh · 1 year

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This is so cool.

Tell me you've never wanted a molting cicada plushie. It's got iridescent wings. LOOK AT IT.

Also got a pitcher plant backpack...with a doomed caterpillar. Sorely tempted.

(he also makes glow in the dark plants) (and breeds monstera) (and has a free downloadable guide to plant breeding for cool characteristics)

anyway support independent artists or something? that make cool things?

#art #bugs #plants #insects #invertabrates #cicadas #pitcher plant #caterpillars #carnivorous plants #vegetarian bugs

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artspacecat · 1 year

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Venus fly trap (Dionaea muscipula). A carnivorous plant that's native to North and South Carolina (USA). The plant's traps (modified leaves) have tiny trigger hairs, once triggered the trap snaps shut. Each plant's trap can close 3 to 4 times before it dies. So please, don't go around poking at them. A4, ink, 2023

#venus fly trap #carnivorous plants #flies #plants #Pen and Ink #ink #Illustration #tradicional art #original art #tattoo design #tattoo ideas #insects #bog #nature #drawings #fantasy art #art #bugs #swamp

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entomologize · 1 year

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Meet the pitcher plant moths, Exyra semicrocea: one of the few insects badass enough to live their whole lives in a trap specifically evolved to kill their kind.

Pitcher plants are finely tuned to kill insects, with slippery sloping walls leading down to a pit of insect-dissolving digestive juices. But these little guys turned the tables! From the moment they hatch, they're a pitcher's nightmare.

The spiky blood-red caterpillars seal the pitchers' entrances and eat them from the inside out, using the death trap as their own personal sanctuary from predators. They have specialized feet to grip onto the slippery walls, and use silk as a safety line to keep themselves from falling to their deaths.

When they emerge as adults, they wait until nightfall and then go party in other pitchers.

Adults have only ever been observed to perch inside pitchers with their heads facing up. It's assumed that their grip only works in one direction, and if they slip up they could fall in (like the poor fly below).

So they seem to like living on the edge.

Photos & art by Laura Gaudette, Steve Taylor, Helen Cowdy, Ashley Bosarge, Deanna D, and Kpinso.

#pitcher plant moths #carnivorous plants #insects #oh how the turns have tabled #bugblr #long post #random facts

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biologist4ever · 2 months

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#photography #education #nature #explore #lol #science #adorable #gifs #plant photography #plants #insects #carnivore #carnivourousplant #venus #venus flytrap

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hazyaltcare · 4 months

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🪰 🍃 🐜 / 🪰 🍃 🐜 / 🪰 🍃 🐜

A stimboard for a small group of carnivorous plants, featuring the colors orange, green, and mauve-red.

Mod Haze (🥧Fiona)

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chameleocoonj · 10 months

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Even more artfights!

Gibby (and Bug) for vehemourn - Plant Pals for StarFilledRam

Skittles for Gay-Air-Conditioner - Frig for lochnessmoron

#my art #artfight #bugsona #my characters #bug #insect #olm #manatee #snake #carnivorous plants #salamander #amphibian #caterpillar

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pitske · 4 months

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JASPER MY BOI!!

#i finally digitalized this!!#omg I love how this turned out :]#the sketch was from last April but I somehow never did anything with it #i actually plan to work on some more of the sketches from that sketchbook #pitskederdoenerhaendler #pitske’s art #this dude ‚Jasper ‚ is one of the two protagonists from my story Galacticall #the Story is about Rudolph ‚a retired postman ‚ who reluctantly had to leave the earth due to it becoming unbearable for humans to live on #and having to leave his deceased wife’s grave behind #as time passes on the spacecraft his loneliness only grows so as he feels himself getting older he decides to deliver one last letter #a love letter to his wife #so he steals a small spaceship and crashlands on earth #which has ‚as he soon discovers‚ changed drastically in about 80 years which for them were a mere 8 (plus/ minus the sped up evolution)#he now tries his best to navigate the new environments and geography avoiding carnivorous giant bugs like prehistoric insects #along the way to find his hometown and wife‘s grave he meets Jasper (not his real name but it is what Rudy calls him #due to the language barrier)#there‘s more to it and I honestly suck at summaries but expect some art of Rudy soon enough #original character #ocs #oc art #digital art #mllte #my love letter to earth #MLLTE

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colorsoutofearth · 5 months

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Common wasp (Vespa vulgaris) caught in a Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula)

Photo by Chris Mattison

#Vespa vulgaris #vespa #Dionaea muscipula #Dionaea #wasp #venus flytrap #insects #plants #carnivorous plants #predation #hymenoptera #nature

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botaniqueer · 2 years

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More Indoor Sun Shoppe Pinguicula. I think one of the staff said the purple friends were P. cyclosecta? Those ones are my favorites. Also I would like to shrink myself down and live on their rock.

#pinguicula #carnivorous plants #plants #plantblr #it seems so peaceful! aside from if I were a winged insect

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thenaturalpet · 11 months

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#bugs #insects #wasps #plants #carnivorous plants #venus fly trap

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ecoamerica · 2 months

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whatnext10 · 1 year

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This Great Blue Skimmer is a Throwback to Summer

This Great Blue Skimmer is a Throwback to Summer shows readers an image from early August and explains the basic process that took it from its original state to this state.

Blue Dragon I took this photo of a male great blue skimmer (Libellula vibrans) back in the beginning of August, and I loved the patterns of the veins visible in the wings, but it definitely needed some work to help bring out the pattern. It took a while to get it to where I wanted it. I’d work on it, think it was okay and then go back the next day and see more that needed to be done. I think…

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muttball · 1 year

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Praying Mantis

Praying mantids have long necks topped by a triangular head. They can turn their heads 180 degrees—an entire half circle. They're well-camouflaged, adapting colors that help them blend with plants. Some also have amazing body shapes that make them look like leaves or branches.

#insects #praying mantis #carnivore #mantids

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bricky-b · 8 days

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the boxwood bush in my yard has three (3) different boxwood-eating insects on it

- Boxwood suckers (mealybugs)

- Boxwood gall midge

- Box moth caterpillars

at this point I just say put the damn plant out of its misery. replace it with a native bush. i dont want to use pesticides out of caution for the other insects in the garden.

#tbh i kinda wanna collect the bugges in a container and leave them out for carnivorous insects to eat #*[surrounded by wasps and ants and assasin bugs]* feed my children. FEED

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felix-krain · 11 months

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"Stay back." hissed the witch.

"I won't let you lay a finger on her."

#pl #professor layton #purple frost au #professor layton fanart #aurora pl #jean descole #my art #he protecc #I wanted to actually draw a witch in their ... well... witch form #it's very rare for witches to take a full on insect form but it can happen #witches lose their mask when in their full form #simply because their insect face is not fit to wear one #also yeah butterflies and moths don't have mouths or jaws but witches are mainly carnivore creatures #so it would have made little sense for them not to have organs fit to process meat #hehe #I keep giving infos on the au in the tags and procrastinating the revamped version of the au explanation #I am working on it tho I swear there will be clear info and not just crumbs in the tags #also ignore the old explanation post it kinda sucks on all sides #old art grammatical mistakes and things explained badly #it was 3 years ago after all

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ecoamerica · 1 month

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